I’D REALLY HOPED I’D RETIRED THIS SERIES — ALAS: It’s the Return of Your Daily Dose of Doom & Gloom. “Nothing clears a room faster than a fiscal crisis column — and yet, in the immortal words of Whitesnake, here I go again.”
June 4, 2025
THE MEDIA CHOSE A SIDE; THEY CHOSE POORLY:
Already seeing the sob stories about the terrorist’s poor children who had big dreams before their dad tried burning a bunch of Jews to death in broad daylight.
When do we hear the sob stories of the actual victims, mainstream media? Jackasses.
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) June 4, 2025
More:
This story is a good allegory to the war in Gaza. Her father preferred to try and murder Jews over keeping her safe, but god forbid anyone pin the blame on what's happening to her now on him. No, it's the laws that are wrong. https://t.co/9Nle1vdCTq
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) June 4, 2025
And:
The fact that there were several people involved in making this story see the light of day should give you a good indication of how corrupt journalism is. They have zero sense of how normal readers will perceive this as offensive.
Anyway, there's a reason why USA Today is no… https://t.co/8FYfW6p7DE
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 4, 2025
The media still doesn’t understand why their reputation is in tatters.
UPDATE (From Ed): “Choices have consequences:”
Here’s a video from the Boulder suspect where he declares that Jihad is more important to him than his family. Choices have consequences.
— Political Sock (@politicalsock) June 4, 2025
New Model Trojan Horse – Ukraine’s Drones:
Bravo to Ukraine for its “New Model Trojan Horse.”
Homer’s Greek warriors slipped from a wooden horse to open Troy’s gates and start the bloodbath that ended a 10-year war.
Ukraine cleverly and stealthily shipped wooden crates deep inside Russian territory, 1,500 kilometers into Siberia. The truck-borne crates were finally positioned a short suicide drone flight from scores of Russian bombers parked on airbases –airbases no doubt protected from long-range aircraft and missile attacks, but unprepared for a “close in” drone attack.
MORE:
The tech was vital, but it wasn’t the decisive factor — like Israel’s Grim Beeper operation, stealth made Ukraine’s drone victory possible.
Could U.S. strategic bomber bases suffer a similar attack? Of course.
From a column I wrote in late December 2024 (and quoted in this June 3 column:
Here’s the gist of the December 2024 column’s scenario:
“I’m by Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas. You’re outside Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota. The drones pass right over us. They’re both the size of a two-seat Cessna and they carry bombs with small, smart, cheap and individually targetable munitions. In the next 45 seconds, the drones fly over the airbases. Their munitions disable a half-dozen B1B Lancer strategic bombers — six at each airbase.”
As a footnote, a link to the December 2024 column: The Next Pearl Harbor: Close-In Drone Swarm Attacks Launched From US Soil?
UPDATE: The run-on words (Greekwarriors, etc) are being corrected by the StrategyPage webmaster.
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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Genghis Khan was a nice guy. Israel is evil. SF parents push back on ‘ethnic studies’ mandate.
San Francisco parents aren’t happy about the district’s year-long “ethnic studies” class, which is now a graduation requirement, report Ezra Wallach and Anya Kaiser on The Standard. All ninth graders — and 10th-graders who opted out last year — will have to take the course, which focuses on the evils of structural racism, colonialism, capitalism and heteronormative thinking.
Looking at the curriculum on the district website, parent Viviane Safrin found only “four lessons out of 55 highlight contributions by ethnic groups, she wrote in a memo last year. The word “hegemony” appeared 81 times.
“They are taught how to organize — what it means to resist,” Safrin told The Standard. “They’re taught about dominant and counter narratives. It’s an upper-level college course for one way to examine history, but it is not teaching any actual history.”
Some lessons were removed in response to her comments, write Wallach and Kaiser, but “one exercise still in use places the Red Guards, a student-led paramilitary organization from Mao’s Chinese Cultural Revolution, alongside the U.S. civil rights and feminist movements as emphasizing ‘the resistance that oppressed groups have shown in history’.”
Another calls for students to read a 2012 article called “Straight white male: The lowest difficulty setting there is” and asks, “What would white males need to give up (or relinquish) in order to make a more equitable society?”
Communism, straight up.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: State and DHS Revoke Visas for Boulder Terrorist Family, Detained for Deportation.
Consequences. How do they work again? Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave everyone a preview late yesterday:
That was not a bluff or an academic statement. Earlier today, the Department of Homeland Security detained the family of the Boulder “Free Palestine” terrorists after the State Department revoked the visas for his wife and children. DHS now has the Solimans on the fast track to get booted out of the country, according to ABC News:
The wife and children of Boulder, Colorado, terrorism suspect Mohamed Soliman are in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the family is being processed for expedited removal, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.
At any rate, the consequences are piling up for the Solimans. The Trump administration isn’t pussyfooting around, and they’re not wasting time either. Presumably the Solimans will have a day or two to file a habeas motion, so a judge still could slow the process down. They won’t succeed in it — the State Department can revoke visas if a national security situation arises, and it certainly has with the Solimans. They will not have much time left in the US, and that will make the prosecution a very lonely process for Mohamed Soliman indeed.
BIG BROTHER WANTS TO SCAN YOUR ID: UK Labour Party Floats Digital ID to Monitor Illegal Immigrants.
ACADEMIA:
Very common pattern in academia: ostracism of otherwise distinguished faculty who ask questions that threaten the reigning narrative. Universities should honor inquisitive minds, not push them out or drive them underground. https://t.co/uqFaTwtlBd
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) June 3, 2025
THE LEFT’S WORST NIGHTMARE: America is on the mend, economy is growing, business investment is headed upward, things are getting better — unless you are an illegal immigrant with a criminal record, an illegal immigrant intent on murdering Jews, a player in the biggest coverup in American history, etc. etc. That’s the worst possible result of Americans sending Donald Trump back to the White House, according to Issues & Insights. No disagreement from this corner.
SERIOUSLY? Hakeem Jeffries Threatens ICE Agents, Compares Them to Nazis.
I think this merits censure and expulsion. The DNC will probably vote him a medal.
HMM: Ukraine Hits Kerch Strait Bridge Again.
“Ukraine reports this one took several months. During that period of time SBU agents of Ukraine place mines along the supports of the Crimean bridge. Today the device was detonated. The underwater supports are reported as being severely damaged at the bottom level.”
“The supports being structurally compromised and destroyed, as seems to be the case here, means that the bridge is, to use a technical term, ‘knackered.’”
“The bridge is still standing. It has not been downed.” But it has been structurally weakened.
There were similarly optimistic assessments after the previous two strikes, so we’ll see.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Pride Month — Tim Walz Should Really Think About Coming Out. “One of the most striking things about the 2024 revamped and unelected Democratic presidential ticket was that they managed to find a running mate who was even more inauthentic than Kamala Harris. That’s quite a feat.”
EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES: Then: Obama disses Art History.
Now:
"Learn to code" they told us pic.twitter.com/zIYYmik65l
— Anand Sanwal (@asanwal) June 2, 2025
DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOE. Chinese Bioterrorism?
DAVID FRIEDMAN: Why Abilene, TX is an AI Boomtown. “Abilene, Texas — population 125,000, more churches than startups, home to a retired Air Force base and a few cattle auctions — is quietly becoming a node in the global AI substrate. And not because it has top-tier researchers or a founder scene. It doesn’t. That’s the point. Abilene isn’t building apps. It’s building the physical substrate of cognition. It has something more valuable than talent or capital: land, power, fiber, and silence. . . . The fantasy of AI still gets marketed as weightless: all in the cloud, ethereal, placeless. But that fantasy is collapsing under the weight of physical constraint. . . . Here’s the real thesis: The map